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16.3.5 Complex NotesCITATIONS. If you cite several sources to make a single point, avoid cluttering your text withreference numbers by grouping them into a single note. List the citations in the same orderthat the references appear in the text; separate citations with semicolons.Only when we gather the work <strong>of</strong> several scholars—Walter Sutton's explications <strong>of</strong> some <strong>of</strong> Whitman'sshorter poems; Paul Fussell's careful study <strong>of</strong> structure in “Cradle”; S. K. C<strong>of</strong>fman's close readings <strong>of</strong>“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” <strong>and</strong> “Passage to India”—do we begin to get a sense <strong>of</strong> both the extent <strong>and</strong> thespecificity <strong>of</strong> Whitman's <strong>for</strong>ms. 1N: 1. Sutton, “The Analysis <strong>of</strong> Free Verse Form, Illustrated by a Reading <strong>of</strong> Whit-man,” Journal <strong>of</strong>Aesthetics <strong>and</strong> Art Criticism 18 (December 1959): 241–54; Fussell, “Whitman's Curious Warble:Reminiscence <strong>and</strong> Reconciliation,” in The Presence <strong>of</strong> Whitman, ed. R. W. B. Lewis, 28–51; C<strong>of</strong>fman,“‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’: Note on the Catalog Technique in Whitman's Poetry,” Modern Philology 51(May 1954): 225–32; C<strong>of</strong>fman, “Form <strong>and</strong> Meaning in Whitman's ‘Passage to India,’” PMLA 70 (June 1955):337–49.It is also useful to group citations when you refer readers to a number <strong>of</strong> additional sources(called a “string cite”):N: 2. For accounts <strong>of</strong> the coherence-making processes <strong>of</strong> consciousness from, respectively, psychological,neuropsychological, <strong>and</strong> philosophical points <strong>of</strong> view, see Bernard J. Baars, A Cognitive Theory <strong>of</strong>Consciousness (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988); Gerald Edelman, Bright Air, Brilliant Fire:On the Matter <strong>of</strong> the Mind (New York: Basic Books, 1992); <strong>and</strong> Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained(Boston: Little Brown, 1991).CITATIONS AND COMMENTS. If a note includes both a citation <strong>and</strong> a substantive comment,put the citation first with a period after it, followed by the comment in a separate sentence.To come to Paris was to experience the simultaneous pleasures <strong>of</strong> the best contemporary art <strong>and</strong> the mostvibrant art center. 9N: 2. Natt, “Paris Art Schools,” 269. Gilded Age American artists traveled to other European art centers, mostnotably Munich, but Paris surpassed all others in size <strong>and</strong> importance.When you include a quotation in a note, put the citation after the terminal punctuation <strong>of</strong> thequotation.Property qualifications dropped out <strong>of</strong> U.S. practice <strong>for</strong> petit juries gradually during the nineteenth century,but remained in <strong>for</strong>ce <strong>for</strong> gr<strong>and</strong> juries in some jurisdictions until the mid-twentieth century. 33N: 33. “The gr<strong>and</strong> jury inquires into complaints <strong>and</strong> accusations brought be<strong>for</strong>e it <strong>and</strong>, based on evidencepresented by the state, issues bills <strong>of</strong> indictment.” Kermit Hall, The Magic Mirror: Law in American History(New York: Ox<strong>for</strong>d University Press, 1989), 172.Be judicious in your use <strong>of</strong> substantive comments in notes. If a point is critical to yourargument, include it in the text. If it is peripheral, think carefully about whether it is importantenough to mention in a note.16.4 Short Forms <strong>for</strong> Noteswww.itpub.net

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